General: Supervisory Board member Prof. Dr. Edgar Ernst is a member of the Advisory Committee of DSW, the local partner of ECGS. This report has been prepared using standard ECGS guidelines.
Item 4: We recommend to oppose the discharge of the Supervisory Board due to the granting of a significant severance payment to the former CFO Dr. A. Stefan Kirsten, who left the Management Board at his own request, as we do not consider him being eligible to a severance payment and the payment as such as well as its volume as inappropriate.
Item 5: KPMG, Berlin, is proposed as auditor for the current financial year. We have no concerns over the ratio of non-audit/audit fees. However, we note that KPMG has audited the Company since the financial year 2005 which exceeds our maximum acceptable term of office. We therefore recommend opposing the re-election of KPMG as auditor.
Vonovia is a residential real estate company based in Germany. Co. maintains 357,117 residential units and a portfolio worth approximately Euro24.1 billion in cities and regions throughout Germany. Co. manages residential units, garages and parking spaces as well as commercial units. Co. focuses on customer orientation and tenant satisfaction, offering tenants affordable, attractive and livable homes, as well as offering additional real estate-related services. Co.'s residential units are located in contiguous settlements at approximately 770 locations in Germany.
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